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by Wagstaff, Adam Bustreo, Flavia Bryce, Jennifer Claeson, Mariam Who-World Bank Child Health and Poverty Working Group Published in American journal of public health (1971) (01.05.2004)

“...In most countries, rates of mortality and malnutrition among children continue to decline, but large inequalities between poor and better-off children exist,...”

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Measuring catastrophic medical expenditures: Reflections on three issues

by Wagstaff, Adam Published in Health economics (01.06.2019)

“...In the “basic” approach, medical expenses are catastrophic if they exceed a prespecified percentage of consumption or income; the approach tells us if expenses...”

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Estimating health insurance impacts under unobserved heterogeneity: the case of Vietnam's health care fund for the poor

by Wagstaff, Adam Published in Health economics (01.02.2010)

“...Vietnam's health care fund for the poor (HCFP) uses government revenues to finance health care for the poor, ethnic minorities living in selected mountainous...”

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Correcting the concentration index: A comment

by Wagstaff, Adam Published in Journal of health economics (2009)

“...In a recent article in this journal, Erreygers [Erreygers, G., 2008. Correcting the concentration index. Journal of Health Economics] has proposed a new...”

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Social health insurance reexamined

by Wagstaff, Adam Published in Health economics (01.05.2010)

“...Social health insurance (SHI) is enjoying something of a revival in parts of the developing world. Many countries that have in the past relied largely on tax...”

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Benefit‐incidence analysis: are government health expenditures more pro‐rich than we think?

by Wagstaff, Adam Published in Health economics (01.04.2012)

“...SUMMARY Authors of benefit‐incidence analyses (BIA) have to impute subsidies using assumptions about the relationship between unobserved subsidies ‘captured’...”

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The bounds of the concentration index when the variable of interest is binary, with an application to immunization inequality

by Wagstaff, Adam Published in Health economics (01.04.2005)

“...When the health sector variable whose inequality is being investigated is binary, the minimum and maximum possible values of the concentration index are equal...”

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Can Insurance Increase Financial Risk? The Curious Case of Health Insurance in China

by Wagstaff, Adam Lindelow, Magnus Published in Journal of health economics (2008)

“...We analyze the effect of insurance on the probability of an individual incurring 'high' annual health expenses using data from three household surveys. All...”

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Fungibility and the impact of development assistance: Evidence from Vietnam's health sector

by Wagstaff, Adam Published in Journal of development economics (2011)

“...The apparent fungibility of aid is a challenge to the evaluation of donor-funded development projects, requiring a comparison of the observed outcomes with the...”

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The concentration index of a binary outcome revisited

by Wagstaff, Adam Published in Health economics (01.10.2011)

“...SUMMARY The binary variable is one of the most common types of variables in the analysis of income‐related health inequalities. I argue that while the binary...”

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The economic consequences of health shocks: Evidence from Vietnam

by Wagstaff, Adam Published in Journal of health economics (2007)

“...This paper finds that the incomes of urban households are more vulnerable to health shocks than rural households, that health shocks may precipitate increases...”

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A comprehensive assessment of universal health coverage in 111 countries: a retrospective observational study

by Wagstaff, Adam Neelsen, Sven Published in The Lancet global health (01.01.2020)

“...The goal of universal health coverage (UHC) requires that everyone receive needed health services, and that families who get needed services do not suffer...”

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ARE HEALTH SHOCKS DIFFERENT? EVIDENCE FROM A MULTISHOCK SURVEY IN LAOS

by Wagstaff, Adam Lindelow, Magnus Published in Health economics (01.06.2014)

“...ABSTRACT Using primary data from Laos, we compare a broad range of different types of shocks in terms of their incidence, distribution between the poor and the...”

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China's health system and its reform: a review of recent studies

by Wagstaff, Adam Yip, Winnie Lindelow, Magnus Hsiao, William C Published in Health economics (01.07.2009)

“...This paper provides a survey of the recent empirical research on China's ‘old’ health system (i.e. prior to the spate of reforms beginning in 2003). It argues...”

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Health systems in East Asia: what can developing countries learn from Japan and the Asian Tigers?

by Wagstaff, Adam Published in Health economics (01.05.2007)

“...The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan), and the recent reforms to them, provide many potentially valuable...”

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Four decades of health economics through a bibliometric lens

by Wagstaff, Adam Culyer, Anthony J Published in Journal of health economics (01.03.2012)

“...In this paper, we take a bibliometric tour of the last forty years of health economics using bibliographic “metadata” from EconLit supplemented by citation...”

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